Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party Quotes

“He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.”
― Graham Greene, Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party

“I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy.”
― Graham Greene, Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party

“You hate him and I suppose I hate him too. But hate-it isn't important. Hate isn't contagious. It doesn't spread. One can hate one man and leave it there. But when you begin to despise like Doctor Fischer, you end by despising all the world.”
― Graham Greene, Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party

“You make him sound like Our Father in Heaven — his will be done on earth as it is in Heaven.’
“That about describes him,’ she said.
“You make me curious.’
‘Oh, keep the appointment if you must,’ she said. “But be careful. Please be careful. And be more than ever careful if he smiles.’
‘A Dentophil smile,’ I mocked her, for indeed both of us used this toothpaste. It had been recommended by my dentist. Perhaps he was a Toad too.
‘Don’t ever mention Dentophil to him,’ she said. ‘He doesn’t like to be reminded of how his fortune was made.’
‘Doesn’t he use it himself?’
‘No. He uses a thing called a water-pik'.”
― Graham Greene, Doctor Fischer of Geneva or The Bomb Party